Gerald
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The option is Silver Leaf and it run’s around 10K. Some of the CC guys will jump in here.
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See the bottom of ths box on the picture, there are 3 little dents on each side the just hold the plastic cover in place. There’s a small lip on the plastic cover that you have to kind of just get under with a real small screw driver or knife and then just pry all the way around and off it comes. It can then be resealed with a little silicone to keep out any moisture on the install. If my problem is the board or the relay needs replaced, I’m out of luck. I’m hoping cleaning up the tiny contact point on the coil will do the trick.
If your Dad wants to tinker some more and I can’t get it to work, I would be glad to pay for a repair job and have a spare like you. I know nothing about circuit boards and all those little parts, other than inspecting for cracked solder.
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George where does the black tubing with the red collar connector go? When you turn the ignition off does air exhaust out the other side of the fitting? I have something like this solenoid on my Aux Compressor between the check valve and the compressor that exhaust air out of that area of the tubing so the compressor doesn’t have to start up against a head pressure.
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You know your family better than we do, this is and will be all about them, especially your wife.
One question for you to answer to yourself, are your children suitable for home schooling? Even if they will not be home schooled I think the suitability will be somewhat a deterining factor for you.
You said you would be absent at times from the family and that can have its own consequences, let alone not being there for “coach” problems/incidents which at times happen on a daily basis.
Go on a few trips first and see how it goes.
Know in advance that if your coach is in perfect condition when you leave on your journey, you will have issues crop up with, well almost anything.
Good luck, go for it. The worst that can happen is it doesn’t work out and you can quit.
The biggest burden will be on your wife. Don’t be detered by my comment, I know women that know more about their coach than their husbands, if you are in that category you have it made.
If you don’t try the life, you will always wonder how it would have been.
ps, don’t take too many clothes, when required just throw some away and buy new. Set up with a separate washer and dryer.
JIM just sayin
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If I understand you correctly you want to hook up your 50amp shore power to a 15 amp socket in your house? That can work if you dial back your inverters to only use 7 amps each otherwise your breaker (in your house panel) will immediately trip. You’ll have to go into your inverter setup and dial back your shore power current.
The picture that shows one side of the storage bay plugged into the other side puzzles me. What is that supposed to achieve? Which end are you plugging into the shore power/house outlet?
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Im probly wrong but i was asuming a buddy plug was an outlet that you could share power with a neighbor (BUDDY) ??
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I took a picture with my cell phone but not sure if I can dowload it from cell to laptop, so I will take one tomorrow with my digital camera and post it on here, thanks.
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I have a extra door for a 91 XL Prob not the same for my door is stainless. Do have a sugestion. Go to your local lock shop(not lowes type) and see what type actuwaiters. Bob
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Without a picture of what you have, I offer my solution.
Through the hole through which you are checking the oil level, insert a clear plastic hose, the largest you can fit through the hole. The hose should be about 4′ long, with it make one large loop after inserting into the hole and with the free end being inserted into your mouth suck the oil out of the gear box into the tube watching the level in the coil. When the coil is full and well away from your mouth, stop the suction and remove the tube from the gear box and blow the oil into a bottle/can to be discarded. Re insert the tube and repeat the process until completion.
Fill the gear box with fresh oil and check the level. If you insert a short piece of the tubing into the hole all the way to the bottom, then placing a finger over the outer end of the tube to seal it. Remove the tube and measure the distance the oil in the tube is from the bottom end. This will tell you exactly how much oil is in the bottom half of the gear box.
You might think this method sucks and in a way it does, but the benefit is you do not have to disturb any alignment and the job will be successfully completed after only about an hour with little mess and you not even getting dirty.
My thoughts from outside the “box”, JIM
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Gil,
Your question about the aux compressor is a good one. Typically aux compressors have cut in and cut out pressures much lower than the coach aux system. Note that we not only need primary and secondary air, it is critical we have aux air because our suspension, belt tensioners, transmission retarder, and some other bus systems rely on aux air.
But when we stop some of us also need aux air for house needs or for slide seal inflation. I don’t think Tom was suggesting we need our aux comressors on necessarily although even if turned on they are likely to not operate, but was suggesting all of our air pressure gauges tell us important information.
Not all of our coaches have aux air pressure displayed, but when it is displayed it is another way to verify the health of our air system which is vital for our coaches.
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Pretty sure they were the original shocks. No more wallowing in road dips. Definitely a worthwhile improvement.
The coach rides well on the highway but I still hear some groaning in front when the suspension flexes on secondary roads or in town. Sounds like it is coming from the air bags but I doubt that they make a noise. The air bags look fine. I looked at the sway bar bushings and they look perfect. Mud flaps are ok. The suspension parts seem well lubed. What should I be looking at next?
Do I have unrealistic expectations? Will there always be some suspension noise?
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If I am picturing it right there is an allen set screw at or near the center of the gearbox that is used for setting the level. I think the level is set by adding oil until it runs from the hole. Having said that my 97 had an allen screw I could not remove so I unscrewed the top fitting and used a screw driver to check the level and compare it to the distance down to the allen screw.
The current bus has a dip stick. That makes 5 dipsticks. Oil, Transmission fluid, power steering fluid, gear box, and the driver.
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I like Entertainers, they often run some very nice looking equipment. But I like Motorhome configurations better.
The most frequent question I am asked about my bus is “How much did it cost?” Which I freely admit, kind of irritates me. American’s want to know the cost of everything, but at the same time, I always seem to find that they know the true value of nothing. You ever notice that?
No one has ever asked for instance, “How much does it weigh?” How long did it take to build it? How many miles of wire is inside it? How did you find it?” Stuff like that.
They always just offer up … “How much did it cost?”
Taking all of this one step further, it is like my Daddy used to say: “Son, if you have to ask, you caint afford it.” Lot of truth in that. Another thing that mystifies me is the “rumor that just because you own a bus” you are made out of money … Simply aint so.
Most of us who reside in the bus community of life, know what they cost. We fuel them, repair them, polish and cherish them, and all of it requires an investment upon our part to make it all work. Contrary to popular opinion we are not all stinkin’ rich … some of us smell a little bad from time to time … true … But I have yet to meet all that many millionaires driving old used buses.
Now we will run this one up the flagpole and see if we can find anyone who will salute it. The most expensive part of any of this, is believe it or not, is the time. The time is the most expensive part of this endeavor, not the loose change.
You know, when you reach my mile-marker in life, middle age, a small voice inside you says … “Just because you are retired and living the good life. Just because you have reached that particular pinnacle in life, that doesn’t mean you should not take advantage of new challenges and seek out new adventures. You get on this crazy merry-go-round we call life and go for it, and by golly, you should make the most of it. Find yourself a good used bus on the Internet and then go for it!”
When you hear this little voice in your head, beware. This is the voice of Satan. Walk quickly, no run, to the nearest exit and check yourself out!
One night at a bus rally not long ago I asked a guy, “What does a paint job like that cost?” He smiled and said, “Y’know? I really LOVE MY BUS and you don’t want to know what that paint job cost, you really don’t.” So as you can readily see, “None of us are immune to this affliction, we all do it from time to time.”
A couple of weeks ago a guy walked up to me at the fuel island and he asked, “Where can I find a bus like this?” and I just smiled my toothy smile and said, “Nowhere, I got the ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD LIKE IT.” Which is true, no one else has one like mine, some are similar, but none are just exactly like it.
Not to be deterred he then he looked me straight in the eye and said it …. “How much did it cost?”
I just shrugged my shoulders and said, “Don’t know, never figured it.” What this guy just doesn’t get or understand is one simple truth. None of this is about money, it is rather, about time. All of it gets down to time, we don’t have enough of it, and we (all of us) are all running out of it in one way or the other.
That is the bottom line … the true cost.
This, I suppose is the best idea I was able to come up with this week. I freely offer it up to share with you, and all you had to pay me was a little of your time. Where can you get a better deal than that?
So …..When they ask who is on-board? I usually just smile and say “I cannot tell you.”
See you in the fast lane.
BCO
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Good post Russ. How about taking it one step further and explain the difference between 220 3 wire (such as a dryer) vs the 220 4 wire with neutral.
Let us know where to send the check!! 🙂
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I have had three coaches with Cruise Airs. Their output is approximately the same as roof airs with most all the individual coach AC units being 13,000 with some at 15,000 BTU.
So their performance should be comparable, assuming they are properly charged and the condensers are clean. The test of that is the temperature difference between the supply and return air temps, which is likely to range between 15 and 21 degrees. When mine have been out of that range it has usually required a tweaking of the freon charge and if it is just right it is as high as 21 degrees spread.
Our coaches have had more cooling capability that we needed except when it has been exceptionally hot. But on 90 degree days we are in the low seventies in the coach with two Cruise Airs running. Cruise Airs are not good for cooling when driving because the air for the condensing unit is the hot air radiating from the highway. Roof airs are up top getting cooler air and work well for driving. Cruise Airs are fine when parked because they are picking up the cooler air from the ground in the shade of the coach. They don’t work so well if the bus is lowered and the parking spot is deep grass that affects air flow.
My objection to roof airs is the noise. The coaches we have been in that use roof airs have been universally noisy, some so much so that the noise level is annoying. That is likely poor installation however.
As to planning on one AC keeping the coach cool, our experience has been that we need two, and that is for air distribution more so than capacity. One will keep the front cool or the rear cool but not both due to the aisle preventing good air flow throughout.